John Stossel departs ABC moves to FOX

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The Huffington Post is reporting that ABC is losing another journalist.

John Stossel Leaving ABC For Fox Business & Fox News
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First Posted: 09-10-09 01:38 PM | Updated: 09-10-09 02:47 PM

John Stossel is leaving ABC News for Fox, where he'll host a weekly show on Fox Business and host a series of specials for Fox News.

TVNewser reports that the libertarian "20/20" host is expected to sign a multi-year-deal with Fox, where he'll host a two-hour weekly show on Fox Business and make appearances on Fox News in both the daytime and primetime hours.

Stossel's departure comes on the heels of last week's announcement that Charlie Gibson is retiring from ABC News.

ABC released the following statement on Stossel's departure:

John has been an important part of the ABC News family for decades and we will miss him. He has engaged, and occasionally enraged, our audience with thought provoking opinions and analysis. John is a unique figure in American journalism and will be an asset to Fox News in this next chapter of his terrific career. We wish John the very best and look forward to hearing his take on the great issues of the day from his new home at Fox.​

The NY Times reported it a bit differently:

John Stossel Leaving ABC for Fox Business

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/11/business/media/11fox.html
By BRIAN STELTER
Published: September 10, 2009
John Stossel, the ABC anchor known for his libertarian bent, is moving to the Fox Business Network to host a weekly prime-time program. He will also make regular appearances on the Fox News Channel.

A fierce and sometimes controversial contrarian, Mr. Stossel is perhaps best known for his watchdog reports, “Give Me a Break.” He has been a correspondent for the ABC newsmagazine “20/20” for almost 30 years, and a co-anchor of it for six years.

Mr. Stossel’s hiring is an important one for the two-year-old Fox Business, which is seeking more viewers and wider cable distribution. Last week the network, a unit of News Corporation, said it would start to simulcast Don Imus’s radio show in October.

Mr. Stossel will start work in October, and his weekly program, named “Stossel,” will begin sometime in the fourth quarter. Fox said “Stossel” would include news segments and conversations about “libertarian issues in the United States and abroad,” including free-market economics and civil liberties.

In a post on his ABC blog, Mr. Stossel said he wanted to “dig into the meaning of the words ‘liberty’ and ‘limited government’ ” on the program.

“ABC enabled me to do some of that, but Fox offers me more air time and a new challenge,” he added.

In a statement, ABC News wished Mr. Stossel well and said he would be “an asset to Fox News in this next chapter of his terrific career.”

Mr. Stossel publicly fumed after ABC chose to run a report in late June about Michael Jackson’s death instead of a segment he had prepared about the dangers of government-run health care systems. “I am sick of the coverage of Michael Jackson,” he wrote in a blog post. The segment was eventually shown four weeks later.

Yup, in that last part of the NYTimes they admit that he is a journalist with integrity (in a backhanded way).

When Chris Matthews shifted to MSNBC did any of the media reports indicate he was a flaming commie pinko who would shill for the Democrats? But the media reports about Stossel are quick to point out his Libertarian beliefs.

 

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He is one of the few MSM anchors with a real journalistic approach to his stories.